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Five Books: Designing the Mind, Boredom as a Superpower, the Slander of Socrates, and More!
Thousands of people trust me to bring them the absolute best book recommendations I can each week, but there’s only so much that I can fit into one email without overwhelming people!
So, what I’ve been doing is publishing the “long” version of those emails here, and sending the short version to my email newsletter subscribers, same as always.
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Today we’re taking a look at:
1- The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace
2 — Making Sense, by Sam Harris
3 — What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami
4 — The Clouds, by Aristophanes
5 — Designing the Mind, by Ryan A. Bush
A short summary of each book is below, along with some of the best notes that I’ve personally taken from them. I’ve added separators where it’s not clear where one quote ends and another begins. You can usually tell pretty easily though!
And as always, the rest of my notes and summaries for the 1,000+ books that I’ve…
